A quick guide to logical fallacies. Fallacies include ad hominem, appeals to authority, the fallacy fallacy, circular arguments, etc.

Butch: Right, I feel sorry for those poor little murderers, too. Let's just release them all and tell them to be nice from now on. This is a straightforward example of the fallacy of Straw Person.

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...